Archaeological Museum of Nafplio
Venetian naval warehouse of 1713 housing Argolid finds, including a full Mycenaean bronze panoply.
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This guide to the Archaeological Museum of Nafplio stands you before the Dendra bronze armour, found in nineteen sixty in a tomb near Mycenae and long filed away as ceremonial. It follows the Birmingham art-school metalworkers who copied it plate by plate in the nineteen eighties, and the Greek marines who later spent a long summer day inside that copy, fighting to a script drawn from Homer's Iliad. Best heard standing at the armour's case.
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